Chapter 3: Concealment
This is the end of the handwriting on the parchment scroll. Qing Chi frowned, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. An idea loomed in her mind, but it hadn't been confirmed. She had remembered that in the Library's Chronicles of the Mandate of Heaven, one of the earliest fallen mages, Lucifer, was recorded.
When the main city of the Heavenly Mandate Continent had not yet taken shape and the four continents had not yet been separated, the Heavenly Mandate Continent was originally a whole. Lucifer was a gifted, handsome, and knowledgeable archmage, who was self-taught, pioneered the spell of destruction, and pioneered the mage university town. But later, he was defined as a fallen mage, sided with the demons, mysteriously disappeared in an explosion, and has since lost a trace.
Since then, the Mandate of Heaven Continent has been cursed by a dark curse because of the demons, and since then, the heavens have collapsed, floods and plagues have occurred, and countless human beings have been killed and injured. The Mandate of Heaven continent was split into four parts during the earthquake, becoming four separate continents. At that time, Qing Chi had always wondered why Lucifer suddenly fell and disappeared, but now she seemed to understand some of the secrets of the past. If the parchment scroll is true, then Lucifer must have had a forbidden love affair with a woman that was difficult for the world to tolerate.
Because of forbidden love and curses, the woman gave birth to a cursed child. And this handmaiden by Lucifer's side, who secretly admired him until he became sick, was it the predecessor of the dark elves?
Qing Chi silently read Lucifer's name, and suddenly his eyes were startled. Lucifer's full name is actually Lucifer Gaya, and this dark elf is called Gagaren, and on that stone tablet, the name of the demon king is called Garo. Could it be that the cursed child is the demon king who was born?
By analogy, the "woman" mentioned in the parchment scroll must be Eve. I have to ask her about this matter. Qing Chi secretly decided that after going out from here, he would go to the Snow Rat Hotel to meet Eve.
"It's 70% explorable, well, it doesn't look like this map is very big. I have to say, the experience value here is really high and scary. At this moment, I have risen to level 90. Drift laughed.
"Definitely. After you go out, you only need to go to the next level to kill a few wild bosses, enjoy the experience exclusively, and you will soon be able to reach level 99. Do you want me to tell you the location of a few coordinates? Qing Chi raised an eyebrow. In just over five hours, it was upgraded to level 8, and such a speed was placed outside, which can be called a rocket. If other players know, they don't know how they will beat their chests. You know, in the late stage of the big stage where the level is already level 90. Killing ordinary monsters below level 80 can only gain 1 experience, and killing ordinary monsters of the same level can gain 50 experience. After level 90, each level requires at least 5 million experience points, so if players want to upgrade, they have to challenge difficult dungeons, skip the level to find wild bosses, and now those monster farming points in the map outside must be occupied by major guilds.
But in the following time, it was the most depressing moment for Qing Chi to feel like playing the game. Because, the fog on the minimap has gradually dissipated, and the area where the black land can be seen is not large. But it took three hours, and neither of them found the exit, nor did they complete the last 30% of the exploration. The silence and eerieness of this place make people a little hairy, and it is an extremely bad experience to sink into the boundless darkness, going back and forth in circles where you have already walked. Even though Qing Chi had a good sense of direction, he was already dizzy at this time.
"That's the mark I left before. We're coming around again. Qing Chi lowered his head with a torch and looked at the arrows inserted in the road, "It turns out that there are ghosts hitting the wall in Western games." It's not a tomb robbery. ”
Drift frowned, crouched down, and carefully looked at the marks on the ground.
"Qingchi, look. The angle at which you insert the arrow has changed. I remember you were plugged vertically into the ground, but now, it's beveled. There was no one else here but us, the dark elf was dead, and there was no one summoned to meet it. So who is it that moved your arrows? ”
Qing Chi's eyes tightened: "Could it be an invisibility monster or a ghost monster?" Wandering thought for a while, and shook his head: "Unlikely." It's all red monsters, that is, they will attack actively. Will the Ghost only move your mark but not attack the player? Also, I always feel a little dizzy, not because I'm lost here, but because ......"
Suddenly, the two looked at each other. Qing Chi's face changed suddenly: "I feel it too!" The ground is trembling! ”
"If I'm not mistaken, the Land of Black Fall is alive. We should be in its belly. I knew it couldn't be that simple. Drift shrugged, "Ah, Xiaoqingchi, we're going to die here." ”
"At this time, you still have the heart to joke." Qing Chi glared at him, grabbed his wandering hand and started running: "We can't sit still. I don't want to die so disgusting and be the excrement of monsters. ”
Drift burst out laughing. Under the firelight, he could see the fine beads of sweat on Qing Chi's head, as well as the shining eyes, and the soft hands, grasping his hands.
Naturally, at the moment of drifting, Qing Chi didn't think much about it, and when she came back to her senses, the roots of her ears were a little red. The drift didn't break it, just smiled quietly. "The brightness of the torch can only shine within ten yards, so if you are in a hurry, you will have a blind spot. I guess we should have missed something just now. ”
Drifting held Qing Chi's hand, and the two of them walked silently on the trembling ground. It wasn't until he passed through a concave place that he suddenly stopped, squatted down, and directly stretched out his hand to grope it.
"In such a dark place, the most difficult thing for the eye to discern is not the direction, but the thickness. Just along the way, I looked, and the ground around me is flat, only here is the depression. No matter what kind of planning it is, or how perverted the dungeon is designed, there is only one ultimate goal: to let players clear the level. If you don't do that, you won't be recognized by the game. Reverse speculation, and you may be able to find the key point. ”
As the wandering hand reached under the stone and pressed down on a mechanism, it quickly sunk in all directions, and slowly rose a platform with symbols and patterns that belonged to the Dark Elves.
"You found the ancient altar. At this moment, you suddenly hear a dull roar. It turns out that the land of black fall is alive! Get out and unlock the secrets of the Dark Elf Altar and the passage will open for you, or be swallowed up by the Darkfall. A red text appeared above the system, along with a half-hour countdown.
Appearing on the altar platform are only a few colorful crystal stones, as well as various materials: spider eggs, salt piles, purple mountain flowers, ice crystal grass, and kudzu roots...... It's all alchemy. Among the dozen or so ingredients, only one combination could make a potion recipe to leave the Black Land, and it was in just half an hour.